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Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. LibriVox recording of Aequanimitas and Other Addresses by Sir William Osler. Read in This book is a compilation of twenty-two addresses given by Sir William Osler in various settings. Download M4B (MB). Aequanimitas by Sir William Osler, , Blakiston edition, in English - 2d ed., with three additional addresses.

Download cover art Download CD case insert book is a compilation of twenty- two addresses given by Sir William Osler in various settings. Osler - Back to home. I. AEQUANIMITAS AEQUANIMITAS1. TO many the frost of custom has made even these imposing annual ceremonies cold and lifeless. IF SIR WILLIAM OSLER were to have summed up the philosophy of his life in a single word, it might well have been aequanimitas. It was the title he gave to his.

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In , he was appointed Chair of Clinical Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and in , was one of the seven founding members of the Association of American Physicians , a society dedicated to "the advancement of scientific and practical medicine. Shortly afterwards, in , Osler was instrumental in the creation of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and became one of the school's first professors of medicine.

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Osler quickly increased his reputation as a clinician, humanitarian, and teacher. He presided over a rapidly expanding domain. In , he initiated the Postgraduate Medical Association, of which he was the first President.

The latter idea spread across the English-speaking world and remains in place today in most teaching hospitals. Through this system, doctors in training make up much of a teaching hospital's medical staff. The success of his residency system depended, in large part, on its pyramidal structure with many interns, fewer assistant residents and a single chief resident, who originally occupied that position for years.

While at Hopkins, Osler established the full-time, sleep-in residency system whereby staff physicians lived in the administration building of the hospital. As established, the residency was open-ended, and long tenure was the rule. Doctors spent as long as seven or eight years as residents, during which time they led a restricted, almost monastic life. He wrote in an essay "Books and Men" that "He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

He pioneered the practice of bedside teaching, making rounds with a handful of students, demonstrating what one student referred to as his method of "incomparably thorough physical examination. By their third year they were taking patient histories, performing physicals and doing lab tests examining secretions, blood and excreta. The original hangs in the William H.

From left to right: William Henry Welch , William Stewart Halsted , William Osler, Howard Kelly He reduced the role of didactic lectures and once said he hoped his tombstone would say only, "He brought medical students into the wards for bedside teaching.

Osler was a prolific author and a great collector of books and other material relevant to the history of medicine. The printed and extensively annotated catalogue of this donation is entitled "Bibliotheca Osleriana: a catalogue of books illustrating the history of medicine and science, collected, arranged and annotated by Sir William Osler, Bt.

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He was instrumental in founding the Medical Library Association in North America, alongside employee and mentee Marcia Croker Noyes , [22] and served as its second president from — His most famous work, ' The Principles and Practice of Medicine ' quickly became a key text to students and clinicians alike.

It continued to be published in many editions until and was translated into many languages. He noted that Avicenna's Canon of Medicine remained "a medical bible for a longer time than any other work".

The title of his most famous essay, "Aequanimitas", espousing the importance of imperturbability, is the motto on the Osler family crest and is used on the Osler housestaff tie and scarf at Hopkins.

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July Learn how and when to remove this template message Osler is well known in the field of gerontology for the speech he gave when leaving Hopkins to become the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford. Osler, who had a well-developed humorous side to his character, was in his mid-fifties when he gave the speech and in it he mentioned Anthony Trollope 's The Fixed Period , which envisaged a college where men retired at 67 and after being given a year to settle their affairs, would be "peacefully extinguished by chloroform".

He claimed that, "the effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty" and it was downhill from then on. The concept of mandatory euthanasia for humans after a "fixed period" often 60 years became a recurring theme in 20th century imaginative literature—for example, Isaac Asimov 's novel Pebble in the Sky.

In the 3rd edition of his Textbook, he also coined the description of pneumonia as "the old man's friend" since it allowed elderly individuals a quick, comparatively painless death.A Way of Life.

We learned to be sensitive to the far-reaching effects of loss and mourning. Twenty-first century challenges to medicine as a profession differ substantially from those of Osler's era. The quotable Osler. Osler was a prolific author and a great collector of books and other material relevant to the history of medicine. Evans RI, Lorenz K.

In , he was appointed Chair of Clinical Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and in , was one of the seven founding members of the Association of American Physicians , a society dedicated to "the advancement of scientific and practical medicine. How animals do business.